In the studies of Socrates you will almost always find cases that contain complaints or, just, the act of Socrates bothering people with his questions that, I must say, are poorly received by others. ... Although he has provided the world with his thoughts, that ring persistently throughout the minds of many whom study his philosophies, he was not a teacher. ... Like in most of literature there must be a general knowledge of life. ...

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 'The internal world on the outside. The genesis of violence and aggression.' (First slide) No horror you can imagine has not already been done by someone to somebody else. Similarly there is no horror you could perform that has not been enacted in imagination or fantasy by somebody. Man is a d...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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